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No books, maps, prints or manuscripts of any description may be taken into the Book Fair but can be left in the free cloakroom provided before entering the fair.

Similarly, all bags (except very small handbags) must be checked into the cloakroom before entering the fair. Please ask for a free clear plastic bag at the cloakroom if you'd like to keep your personal belongings with you.

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Antiques Trade Gazette, Official Media Partner to Rare Books London 2018, is proud to present the Books, Maps & Prints supplement, in association with Forum Auctions.

Click here to discover exclusive interviews with book dealers, special features on topics such as Mapping the City Limits, The Gothic Revival and Books Fairs: An Evolution plus essential listings of forthcoming auctions, fairs and dealer events.

There will be copies available at the London Fair.

Book dealers from the UK, Europe and US will be offering books, maps, prints, photographs,
manuscripts and printed ephemera with prices to suit book hunters, large and small.

We also pleased to be offering our FREE Evaluation service, so please bring along your books to get them valued by trusted PBFA dealers.

Our colleagues at the ABA will be holding their Book Fair at Battersea this year.

Here are some instructions to help you get there.

From West Brompton Station (turn right outside ILEC) take the District Line to London Victoria and then a train on Southern Rail (over ground) to Battersea Park station.

Exhibitors

Specialisms: Two catalogues of antiquarian English and continental books, manuscripts and ephemera, especially Italian and French, issued per year, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, humanities, science and printing history.

Specialisms: We are interested in diverse material, particularly that which we can put an interesting spin on. Two printed catalogues a year. We are the youngest professional antiquarian booksellers in the world.

Specialisms: Literature, 15th to 20th century; landmark books in science, economics, philosophy and the history of idea; travel, voyages, military and naval; illustrated books, including children's and photography; fine bindings and sets.

Specialisms: We specialise in Children's and illustrated books, mainly 19th and 20th century. The shop also stocks Cambridge and East Anglian interest, fine bindings, general fiction, poetry and quirky titles, and anything we deem interesting! Valuations undertaken, showing at PBFA book fairs across the U.K.

Specialisms: Specialists in 20th century children's and collectable illustrated books, including Arthur Rackham, Fairy books, Enid Blyton, Rupert & Comic annuals, Ladybird series and all popular authors of boys & girls story books and juvenile literature. Our other area of interest is detective crime fiction including Agatha Christie.

Specialisms: We are a large antiquarian and secondhand bookshop also selling antique prints and maps. We undertake bookbinding commissions as well as picture restoration and cleaning. We have a wide and general stock which is particularly strong on natural history, country pursuits, topographical and military books.

Specialisms: World Travel and Exploration including Central Asia and the Middle East. Military History specifically WWII. Poland. Modern First Editions mainly based on 1950s/60s/70s cinema. English Topography. White Eagle Books is a Member of the IOBA.

Specialisms: Africa, general travel, literature, quality general stock. Private premises and book-room with good quality general stock. We specialise in Africa and hold a stock of 20,000 books on sub-Saharan Africa.

PRIVATE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION
Contact: Kevin Cordes
29 Eden Drive, Hull, HU8 8JQE:cordes25@gmail.comW:www.plabooks.orgT: 01482 798568
Specialisms: We are an international association of people who love and collect books. We aim to share that love and enthusiasm by publishing books and articles on all aspects of the book, anything, in fact, that reflects the interests of our members. In 2016 we celebrated our 60th anniversary and intend to keep going for another sixty years. We publish four journals a year and in 2018 we will be publishing the latest of our books, Early Private Presses 1730-1900, a two-volume work by David Chambers, the well-known expert in this field. We will have the full range of our journals and publications available to buy at the fair.